My Fiance has brought it to my attention that she can not sleep at night with me "Clickety, Click, Click, Clicking" all Night. Wether it's work or gamming it is dirving her crazy. So I decided to take action. I went Online and found that there is not a big market for "Silent Mice", "Quiet Clicks" or a "Silent Click Mouse that will not wake up your loved one while you game all night".
What is a man to do?
Well, as with everything I own, I took the mouse appart and tried to see what was making that infernal racket.
I started with an old dell mouse I had laying around.
I took the top off, removed the connector cable from the plug on the board inside.
Then took the board off by removing 2 little screws.
Now to investigate.
At first I thought it was the little lever thing hitting the clickey button thing (Technical I know).
That wasn't it, It had to be the switch.
I pushed the button on top of the switch and low and behold the most anoying CLICK emerged.
What to do?
Looking the switch over I saw that it had a top and bottom section, with a saftey pin (Right tool for the right job, right?) i carefully removed the top from the bottom of the little left click switch.
What I saw was a flat piece of copper, between two connectors in a way that it would hit the top when released holding it in place and when you pushed down it made connection with the circuit all pivoting on the far end. Looking something like this [---, push down=connection, let go=no connection cool.
The piece of copper (Or whatever it is, not really important) was what was making all the noise.
Being a man who is not very useful with anything but tape and fishing line, I decided to put a little piece of tape on the piece of copper between the top connection and the copperlike this [=== with the tape on the top and going all the way down the piece of copper. Then I put the switch back together (Man the little pushey down thing that goes in the switch is a pain in the... fingertip knuckle of the index finger.)
Now when I push on my mouse button all I hear is, nothing.
You would be surprised how dificult it is not hearing the click. It has taken me some time to get use to it. The sacrifices one will endure for love.
Now no more coments on the clickety clickety click click click of the mouse and she sleeps like a baby (Luckily she isn't bothered by the glowing of the Screen, then I would really be in trouble).
What is a man to do?
Well, as with everything I own, I took the mouse appart and tried to see what was making that infernal racket.
I started with an old dell mouse I had laying around.
I took the top off, removed the connector cable from the plug on the board inside.
Then took the board off by removing 2 little screws.
Now to investigate.
At first I thought it was the little lever thing hitting the clickey button thing (Technical I know).
That wasn't it, It had to be the switch.
I pushed the button on top of the switch and low and behold the most anoying CLICK emerged.
What to do?
Looking the switch over I saw that it had a top and bottom section, with a saftey pin (Right tool for the right job, right?) i carefully removed the top from the bottom of the little left click switch.
What I saw was a flat piece of copper, between two connectors in a way that it would hit the top when released holding it in place and when you pushed down it made connection with the circuit all pivoting on the far end. Looking something like this [---, push down=connection, let go=no connection cool.
The piece of copper (Or whatever it is, not really important) was what was making all the noise.
Being a man who is not very useful with anything but tape and fishing line, I decided to put a little piece of tape on the piece of copper between the top connection and the copperlike this [=== with the tape on the top and going all the way down the piece of copper. Then I put the switch back together (Man the little pushey down thing that goes in the switch is a pain in the... fingertip knuckle of the index finger.)
Now when I push on my mouse button all I hear is, nothing.
You would be surprised how dificult it is not hearing the click. It has taken me some time to get use to it. The sacrifices one will endure for love.
Now no more coments on the clickety clickety click click click of the mouse and she sleeps like a baby (Luckily she isn't bothered by the glowing of the Screen, then I would really be in trouble).
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Re: Silent click Mouse
Tue, February 28, 2006 - 3:33 PM3 other solutions:
1. move the computer out of the bedroom
2. turn the volume up so that she doesn't hear the mouse
3. try a keyboard with a touchpad
quick google search yields:
www.dealtime.com/xPP-keybo...__touchpad
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Re: Silent click Mouse
Wed, April 5, 2006 - 5:59 PMTouch pads suck for... well they just suck.
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Re: Silent click Mouse
Tue, February 28, 2006 - 9:59 PMActually an impressive bit of DIY hacking... the funny part is they probably spent millions researching how to best make "just the right click sound" using that little switch. -
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Re: Silent click Mouse
Wed, March 1, 2006 - 6:28 AMYes there is a lot of work done to get the right click.
Get a cheap mouse - pull the click pads off. Break the little plastic clickers. Put the pads back on.
VOIALA Silent CIA secret Black HELICOPTERS
Oh no I mean mouse.
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Re: Silent click Mouse
Thu, March 2, 2006 - 6:37 PMI hear the theme from Mission Impossible playing in your house. Could you turn it down?
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Re: Silent click Mouse
Tue, February 28, 2006 - 10:05 PMNice diy
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Re: Silent click Mouse
Wed, March 1, 2006 - 7:34 AMI am just so impressed with how you wanted to please your sweetie.
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Silent Night
Wed, March 1, 2006 - 1:56 PM"...how you wanted to please your sweetie."
I can't help wondering (from lessons learned the hard way) - if the best way to please her would be - to go to bed?
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Re: Silent Night
Wed, March 1, 2006 - 2:54 PM"I can't help wondering (from lessons learned the hard way) - if the best way to please her would be - to go to bed?
(meant in the "nicest" PG-13 way)"
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Re: Silent Night
Sat, March 18, 2006 - 9:03 AMor you could've just bought a Thanko Quiet Mouse: www.akibalive.com/archives/000681.html
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Re: Silent Night
Wed, April 5, 2006 - 5:57 PMIt isn't as silent as they make it out to be.
Lately the only thing that can be heard late at night when working, I work and game at night , she works odd hours that is why we are not in bed together (Meant in the most pg-13 way), is the sliding of the mouse on the table. A little car wax on the table and some masking tape. that's gone toooooo.
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Re: Silent click Mouse
Sat, March 18, 2006 - 9:48 AMvery funny and sweet story
another suggestion - I'm a light sleeper - I run a fan at night when I am sleeping. It does a great job at drowning out background noise (traffic, tv on in the other room). It also mentally sets me up to go to sleep. I hear a fan and start to get sleepy.
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Re: Silent click Mouse
Sun, December 7, 2008 - 1:18 AMHi NME,
It's 9:30 on a sunday morning. My girlfriend is sound asleep. I'm clicking away with my now silent mouse, listening to radio on my headset. I eventually used duckttape on the copper clickety thingies in my Trust mouse. Cellotape didn't help. Duckttape gives utter silence but i lost the tactile feedback. So I advice anyone who's planning to try this to get tape that's thicker than cellotape but not as thick as duckttape.
Or maybe the tactile feedback will stay intact if you just put the tape at the tip of the top of the coppery thingy and not across the length of the top. But I'm not opening my mouse up again to check.